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Independent businesses in Market Harborough are joining forces to support a national campaign aimed at encouraging people to shop local. The fortnight-long ‘Fiver Fest’ launches tomorrow as part of the ‘Totally Locally’ initiative. It’s estimated if everyone adult in the Harborough District spent an extra £5 a week in independent shops and businesses, instead of […]

Two men have admitted the illegal slaughtering of up to 350 sheep and lambs across Northamptonshire, including in Kelmarsh, Clipston and Welford. Robert Iordan, 23 and Florin Nutu, 35, had initially denied conspiracy to steal, in relation to the illegal butchery of animals between June and October last year, but today changed their pleas at […]

Developers have been warned flouting planning rules is not acceptable. Harborough Council bosses met with a number of construction companies yesterday to drive home the message. In the last few months enforcement action has been taken on a number of developers who have broken planning conditions on new homes sites across the district – like […]

People from the Market Harborough area are to benefit from a new Cancer Support Centre. It’s to be built at Kettering General Hospital in a joint project with Macmillan Cancer Support and offer a range of support for people living with the disease and their carers. It will be the first facility of its kind […]

The first of a number of Open Days at Foxton Locks this weekend have been cancelled due to the threat of Storm Dennis. The Canal and River Trust say with high winds and heavy rainfall forecast would pose a health and safety risk and the safety of visitors has to be a priority. A further […]

Work is beginning to re-build a Market Harborough pub that was gutted by fire. Building teams have moved onto the site off Rockingham Road, where the new Roebuck will go up. Brewery Marston’s is spending around £3m on the development, after the previous building was demolished following a major blaze last September. The firm hopes […]

A safety review is to take place at a notorious accident blackspot just outside Market Harborough after another serious crash. The collision a week ago on the A6, at the junction with Kettering Road at Clack Hill, left one driver with serious injuries. It was the latest to have happened at the junction in the […]

Post Office services in Market Harborough town centre look to have been saved, with the announcement today a new branch is set to open. It will go inside a new convenience store planned for an empty shop on Adam and Eve Street – formally a beer shop. The future of a Post Office in the […]

Men from Houghton on the Hill and Bushby are among 23 people to be convicted of involvement in a major cross-county drugs plot. Detectives mounted an operation last summer to target those involved in supplying drugs across Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Liverpool, executing over 50 warrants. Ashley Boyd, 34, of Chapel Close, Houghton on the […]

A plan to build houses on the former Thorpes Joinery site in Great Glen has been withdrawn. It proposed demolishing the factory and warehouse buildings so ten semi-detached homes could be built on the site off Church Road. Northamptonshire-based Hazelton Homes lodged a planning application in December after Thorpes completed their relocation to Market Harborough, […]